IT was the decade when Parisian tailor-architect Pierre Cardin and engineer Andre Courreges put industrial design onto fashion runways, even topping Audrey Hepburn with a white astronaut-style helmet in How To Steal A Million.
ARTIST Pablo Picasso was among hundreds of high-profile agitators who pleaded for the lives of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
TENNESSEE Williams is not normally found in a children’s library but when a group of actors put on his plays in a Cammeray library they founded a long running theatre company
WHEN a crowd supporting radical politician and journalist John Wilkes turned ugly, soldiers began firing on them resulting in an infamous massacre.
HE couldn’t make it as half of the teenage duo Tom & Jerry, but Paul Simon went on to become a star.
MOST people think that the dreaded short-pitched leg-side delivery was first used in the infamous Bodyline Test series of 1932-33. But the tactic was around long before Douglas Jardine.
WHILE the world waits to see whether Donald Trump can live down his scandalous remarks about women, there have been more than enough examples in US history of candidates trying to shake off a scandal.
WHILE the world waits to see whether Donald Trump can live down his scandalous remarks about women, he’s not the first nor will he be the last when it comes to US presidential hopefuls involved in scandal.
THE exclusive enclave of Tuxedo in upstate New York was credited with giving gentlemen an alternative to fussy formal evening wear — a short, black dinner suit — at its first autumn ball 120 years ago.
SYDNEY thoroughbred mare Winx might have scared away most of the field for Saturday’s Caulfield Cup, but she joins a prestigious list of horses that were too good for their competition.
EDWARD Hargraves became famous as the man who embarked on a “wild and unprofitable undertaking” sparking the Australian gold rush. But someone else did the work while Hargraves claimed the credit.
A CENTURY ago there was a mass “breakout” of the animals in the Sydney Zoo. Fortunately they were all aided in their escape by zookeepers who moved them to more spacious surroundings at Mosman.
DONALD Trump’s history of tax evasion is nothing compared to some. While most people try to be a little bit smart about minimising the tax they have to pay, others are not so subtle.
THE Dion Bus Service is the oldest surviving private bus company in the state and will be among those celebrating the 75th anniversary of BusNSW, founded at the end of 1941, at Sydney Showground this week.
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